On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:32:18PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "todd glassey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Yes but this is specific to the argument on whether an ISP > > should be accountable for what people do with its bandwidth > > and what I think is ultimately going to happen is that these > > laws are going to be put in place and as part of enforcing > > these there will be some arrests. > > If you ship pot via FedEx, does the delivery guy go to jail too? No. > If you make obscene phone calls, does the operator go to jail too? No. > > Common carrier status exists for this very reason. Unfortunately, it > probably means we'll have to stop filtering things like spam and DoS, > since filtering on content inherently violates common carrier protection > -- see the smut suit against AOL a few years ago.
And yet, if FedEx notices a package is ticking, they have the right to reject it without being held responsable for ones they don't catch. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
